One-Piece Garment

ABSTRACT

A one-piece garment which is simple in arrangement and handling related to opening/closing operation and which is arranged so as not to cause any problems in mobility of the body, includes a tight-fit garment which is formed in an integrated manner from a neck seal part at an upper part up to leg accommodating parts at a lower part, a zipper for putting on or taking off the garment is installed on a back part of the body in a horizontal direction at a region equal to a height of ½ of the upper part in a vertical-direction region from armpits to the waist part and the zipper is also installed in a state extending from flank parts on both sides of the body to the front part of the body.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a one-piece garment for wearing over the body, including a dry suit and a wet suit used in surfing and diving and also a protective suit for evacuation from disasters or protection from radioactivity.

DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATED ART

In a one-piece garment such as a wet suit and a dry suit, it is essential to install a zipper at a back part of the garment and/or at a front part thereof so that a wearer can put on and take off the garment.

However, in most cases, zippers based on a conventional technique are not installed in a horizontal direction but installed in a diagonal direction or in a spiral manner, giving a complicated arrangement. In reality, typical examples having the above-described arrangement are disclosed in Patent Documents 1, 2 and 3.

Installation of the above-described zippers with a complicated arrangement increases the manufacturing cost. Further, opening/closing operation of the zippers is relatively complicated and consequently not easily opened or closed.

As shown in FIG. 9 and FIG. 10 of Patent Document 3, a zipper is installed on both shoulder parts in a horizontal direction. However, in this case, a wearer finds it quite difficult to open or close the zipper by oneself, inevitably resulting in a disadvantage that the zipper will always cause problems in moving the shoulders.

On the other hand, in Patent Document 4, at the back part of the body, a zipper is installed at a position equal to a height in the vicinities of the armpits on both sides. However, at the front part of the body, the zipper end parts extend from a flank part on the right side up to the vicinity of a left shoulder. Thus, the zipper is not designed so as to extend from flank parts on both sides.

As a result, opening/closing operation of the zipper is performed in a range from the position in the vicinity of the left shoulder of the front part up to the position of the left-side end of the back part. Therefore, the positions on which a wearer starts and finishes opening and closing of the zipper are at the front of the body, thereby it is not possible to realize easy opening/closing operation of the zipper by use of both hands.

It may be safe to say that in the above-described conventional techniques, originality and ingenuity have been so far hardly found in the field of one-piece garments, with attention given to installation of a zipper which is simple in arrangement and can be handled easily.

PRIOR ART DOCUMENTS Patent Documents

-   [Patent Document 1] Japanese Published Unexamined Utility Model     Application No. S62-198209 -   [Patent Document 2] Japanese Published Unexamined Utility Model     Application No. H2-107595 -   [Patent Document 3] Japanese Published Unexamined Utility Model     Application No. H3-37099 -   [Patent Document 4] Japanese Published Unexamined Utility Model     Application No. S64-40794

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Problems to be Solved by the Invention

An object of the present invention is to provide a one-piece garment which is simple in arrangement and easily handled in opening/closing operation and also which is arranged so as not to cause any problems in mobility of the body.

In order to attain the above object, the present invention is basically arranged so as to give a one-piece garment which extends from a neck seal part at an upper part up to leg accommodating parts at a lower part, and the one-piece garment in which a zipper for putting on or taking off the garment is installed on a back part of the body in a horizontal direction at a region equal to a height of ½ of the upper part in a vertical-direction region from armpits to the waist part and the zipper is also installed in a state of extending from flank parts on both sides of the body toward a center position of the front part of the body in the horizontal direction.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIGS. 1A-1C cover individual front views, each of which corresponds to a front part of the basic arrangement, and individual back views, each of which corresponds to a back part thereof.

That is, FIG. 1A shows an embodiment in which at the front part a zipper is installed by extending in a horizontal direction from flank parts on both sides to each other,

FIG. 1B shows an embodiment in which at the front part the zipper is installed by extending in an inclined direction at which the zipper gradually descends from the flank parts on both sides, and

FIG. 1C shows an embodiment in which at the front part the zipper is installed by extending in an inclined direction at which the zipper gradually ascends from the flank parts on both sides.

FIG. 2 is a back view which shows an arrangement of another embodiment.

FIGS. 3A and 3B cover arrangements of Example 2 and Example 3, FIG. 3A is a front view which corresponds to the front part and FIG. 3B is a back view which corresponds to the back part.

FIGS. 4A-4D show arrangements in which a hem skirt is wound and installed in Example 2. More particularly, FIGS. 4A and 4B respectively show a front view and a back view in which no suspenders are wound and mounted on shoulder parts, and FIGS. 4C and 4D respectively show a front view and a back view in which the suspenders are wound and mounted.

DESCRIPTION OF REFERENCE NUMERALS

-   1: garment -   2: zipper -   21: end part at which the zipper is installed -   3: suspenders -   4: hem skirt -   5: crotch band

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

In the above-described basic arrangement, as shown in FIGS. 1A, 1B and 1C, at the back part, a zipper 2 is installed in a horizontal direction in a symmetrical manner at a region equal to a height of about ½ from the upper part in a vertical-direction region from armpits to the waist part and at the front part, the zipper is installed by extending from flank parts on both sides to a center position of the front part in the horizontal direction.

As a result, in the present invention, the zipper 2 is installed in an extremely simple manner. The garment of the present invention is extremely low in manufacturing cost and can also be worn in such a manner that opening/closing operation of the zipper 2 can be started and finished at the front part of the body by use of both hands. Therefore, the garment is quite easily handled as compared with the garment disclosed in Patent Document 4.

That is, it is possible to avoid the inconvenience resulting from complicated manufacturing and complicated operation when the zipper is opened or closed, which are found on the installation state of the complicated zipper 2 disclosed in Patent Documents 1, 2 and 3.

As described previously, FIG. 1A shows the embodiment in which the zipper is viewed in the horizontal direction, FIG. 1B shows the embodiment in which the zipper gradually descends in an inclined direction, and FIG. 1C shows the embodiment in which the zipper gradually ascends in an inclined direction.

As a matter of course, as described previously, all the above-described embodiments are common in that they are able to realize actions and effects resulting from low manufacturing cost and convenience in use.

The back part of the garment is connected to the front part thereof at the flank parts on both sides of the body. And, in most cases, as with the case of the back part, the front part is designed to be installed in a horizontal direction, which is based on low manufacturing cost and convenience in use.

A one-piece garment 1 of the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described in FIGS. 1A, 1B and 1C.

For example, as shown in FIG. 2, it is possible to adopt an embodiment in which the zipper 2 is extended from flank parts on both sides up to a center position of the front part in the horizontal direction (It is noted that FIG. 2 shows a state in which the zipper is extended in the horizontal direction as shown in FIG. 1A, however, as a matter of course, the above embodiment is also applicable to a case where the zipper is extended in an inclined manner as shown in FIG. 1B or FIG. 1C.).

In any case, in each of the above-described embodiments, at the back part, the zipper 2 is installed substantially in the horizontal position at a height which is above an intermediate region between the armpits and the waist part. Thus, where the zipper 2 is kept open, a wearer is able to easily put on or take off the garment.

EXAMPLES

Hereinafter, a description will be given in accordance with examples.

Hereinafter, a description will be given based on examples.

Example 1

In the previously described individual embodiments, where the width of the garment in a vertical direction is fundamentally in agreement with a distance from lower ends of the leg parts up to the shoulder parts and the neck part of the body, when wearing the garment, a wearer is required to bend forward the upper half of the body in order that her head is allowed to protrude through an insertion hole of the neck part at an upper end of the garment.

Example 1 is a one-piece garment 1 in which the width thereof in the vertical direction is in agreement with a distance from lower ends of the leg parts up to the shoulder parts and the neck part of the body, and the garment 1 is made of a stretchable material.

It is noted that a typical example of the stretchable material includes neoprene sponge.

As described above, where the garment 1 is stretchable, a wearer can protrude her head through the insertion hole of the neck part, without bending forward her head when wearing the garment 1.

Example 2

Where a part of the garment 1 corresponding to the upper half of the body is designed so as to be longer than an actual length of the body, when wearing the garment 1 which is not made of a stretchable material, a wearer can protrude her head through the insertion hole of the neck part, without bending forward the upper half of the body.

However, where the part thereof corresponding to the upper half of the body is designed to be longer than the length of the body, it will always entail a so-called downward sag in which the part corresponding to the upper half of the body slips downward in association with sag due to an excess size.

Example 2 is a one-piece garment 1 in which a part of the garment 1 corresponding to the upper half of the body is designed to be longer than the length of the body and also which is not made of a stretchable material. As shown in FIGS. 3A-3B, the one-piece garment 1 is such that there is adopted a suspenders 3 which are wound and mounted on the shoulder parts and also connected to the garment 1, with a lower-abdomen part covering region at the front and a lower-back part covering region at the back given as end parts.

Adoption of the above-described suspenders 3 makes it possible to prevent the upper half part of the garment 1 from sagging downward.

In Example 2, as shown in FIGS. 4A-4D, such an arrangement is quite favorable that a hem skirt 4 is wound and installed on a hem part.

More specifically, when the garment 1 is put on or taken off without winding and mounting the suspenders 3 on the shoulder parts, as shown in FIGS. 4A and 4B, there is found no overlapped portion resulting from bending at a region which covers the hem part.

In contrast, when a wearer wears the garment 1 by winding and mounting the suspenders 3 on the shoulder parts, as shown in FIGS. 4C and 4D, there is found at a hem part covering region an overlapped portion resulting from bending due to the fact that the adoption of the suspenders 3 dimensionally shortens a part corresponding to the upper half of the body in the vertical direction. However, the hem skirt 4 is wound and installed on the bent portion, thus making it possible to prevent the garment 1 from being worn unstably due to development of the bent portion.

It is noted that either of the following arrangements maybe adopted, that is, an arrangement in which the hem skirt 4 is made of a material which is stretchable and designed so that a circumferential length of the hem skirt 4 is designed to be slightly shorter in dimension than a circumferential hem length of a wearer, thereby the skirt 4 can be firmly wound and installed, or an arrangement in which the hem skirt 4 is made of a material which is not stretchable but designed so that a circumferential length of the hem skirt 4 is designed to be substantially equal to a circumferential hem length of a wearer, thereby the skirt 4 can be firmly wound and installed.

Example 3

When a wearer dives in water, wearing the garment 1 according to Example 2, due to the fact that a region which covers the upper half of the body is designed to be longer than the body, there is found such a state that air is filled inside the garment 1 in a greater quantity than a case that the region covers the upper half of the body normally.

Due to the above-described state, there may be found a so-called riding up in which the region which covers the upper half of the body moves upward in association with shifting of the upper part.

In particular, where no hem skirt 4 is provided, riding up is more likely to take place.

Example 3 is the one-piece garment 1 according to Example 2 as shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B, in which there is adopted a crotch band 5 which is wound and installed on a crotch part positioned between upper ends of both leg parts and also connected to the garment 1, with a lower-abdomen part covering region at the front and a lower-back part covering region at the back given as end parts.

Adoption of the above-described crotch band 5 makes it possible to prevent riding up which takes place in water.

It is noted that the position at which the hem skirt 4 is wound and installed as shown in FIGS. 4A, 4B, 4C and 4D often overlaps with a position at which the hem skirt 4 is connected to the garment 1 at an upper end of the crotch band 5, as shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B.

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION

The one-piece garment having the above-described basic arrangement is simply arranged in such a manner that the zipper is installed at the back part in a horizontal direction and also installed by extending from the flank parts on both sides to the front side part. Therefore, the garment can be manufactured at lower cost and also secured for such convenience in use in opening/closing operation of the zipper, a wearer is able to start and finish opening and closing of the zipper by oneself, using both hands at the front side part of the body.

Further, since the zipper does not reach a region which covers the shoulders, a wearer is able to move the shoulders relatively freely.

The present invention can be used as a dry suit, a wet suit, a protective garment, etc., finding a variety of applications and obtaining great value through the use thereof. 

1. A one-piece garment comprising: a body portion which extends from a neck seal part at an upper part to leg accommodating parts at a lower part, and a zipper for putting on or taking off the garment installed on a back part of the body portion and extending in a horizontal direction on the back part in a region of approximately ½ height of the upper part extending from armpits to a waist part of the upper part and the zipper also extends from flank parts on both sides of the body portion toward a center position of a front part.
 2. The one-piece garment according to claim 1, wherein at a front side part of the body portion, the zipper is installed at one of the following: in a horizontal direction from flank parts on both sides, in an inclined direction so as to gradually descend, and in an inclined direction so as to gradually ascend.
 3. The one-piece garment according to claim 1, wherein at a front side part of the body portion, the zipper is installed in an inclined direction so as to gradually ascend from one of the flank parts and the zipper is installed in an inclined direction so as to gradually descend from the other of the flank parts, with the inclined directions thereof being in parallel to each other.
 4. The one-piece garment according to claim 1, wherein the zipper is installed in one of: a horizontal direction and an inclined direction from the flank parts on both sides to a center position of the front part.
 5. The one-piece garment according to claim 1, wherein the length of the garment in the vertical direction corresponds with a distance from lower ends of the leg accommodating parts up to shoulder parts and the neck seal part of the body portion, and the garment is made of a stretchable material.
 6. The one-piece garment according to claim 1, wherein: a region of the garment covering an upper half of the body portion from a waist portion to shoulder portions is designed to be longer than an upper half of a body from a waist to shoulders of a person on which it is adapted to be fitted, and the garment is not made of a stretchable material, and the one-piece garment includes suspenders which are wound and mounted on shoulder parts of the body part and also connected with the garment, with the suspenders covering a lower abdomen part at a front side and a lower back part at a back side.
 7. The one-piece garment according to claim 6, further comprising a hem skirt wound and installed on a hem part covering region in order to cover an overlapped portion resulting from bending caused by the suspenders being wound and mounted on the shoulder and connected to the garment.
 8. The one-piece garment according to claim 6, further comprising a crotch band which is wound and installed on a crotch part positioned between upper ends of both leg accommodating parts and also connected to the garment, with the crotch part covering a lower abdomen part at a front side and a lower back part at a back side. 